For thousands of years, the Great Plains were home to countless numbers of American bison, but in the late 1800s, the number of bison dropped from nearly 30 million to just a few hundred in less than 100 years. What happened to place this national icon on the brink of extinction? Join us as we detail the events that led to this mass extermination. Then follow the story of William Temple Hornaday, a chief taxidermist at the Smithsonian Institution who headed west to hunt bison for the museum, but ended up saving the species instead.

The imminent extinction of the vaquita porpoise and the totoaba, two species endemic to Baja Califor...

Ocean Oasis is a fascinating journey into the bountiful seas and pristine deserts of two remarkably ...

Yellowstone is a park, but it's also the deadliest volcano on Earth. Beneath it, a sleeping 'dragon'...

In the daily struggle for survival, terrible thirst drives wildlife to water...even when the water i...

Africa's giant rats – the size of a cat – can be trained to detect land-mines by smelling them. Gian...

Africa is a land of giants. Its powerful rivers sculpt the earth and form impressive valleys and wat...

A place of biological superlatives with a flora and fauna that have only just begun to be researched...
This fascinating film tells the story of one man's struggle to protect a small population of gorilla...

An educational film about the life cycles of various types of pond life.

The Bozeman Trail was an offshoot of the Oregon Trail, a shortcut to the newly discovered gold field...

Two hundred years after Charles Darwin set foot on the shores of the Galápagos Islands, David Attenb...

Whether it's the biggest great white, the most photographed tiger shark, or the shark known for jump...

Roam the Wild West frontier land of the Rio Grande’s Big Bend alongside its iconic animals, includin...

Sea otters are once again in peril after being brought back from the brink of extinction. An unprece...

"The Laramie Project" is set in and around Laramie, Wyoming, in the aftermath of the murder of 21-ye...

Disneynature’s Elephant follows African elephant Shani and her spirited son Jomo as their herd make ...

A stop-motion adaptation of the 1981 novel by geologist Dougal Dixon of the same name, which explore...

A journey to seven of the most geographically dynamic locations on earth. The film features spectacu...